CONFUCIUS LIFE

LESSON
a. Founder: Confucius (551-479
B.C.)
b. Sacred texts: Confucian Classics
c. Doctrines: Mandate of Heaven,
T”ien, Human nature as originally
good (Mencius) or evil (Hsun Tze),
Rectification of Names, The Moral
Way consisting of five cardinal
virtues, Filial Piety, and Ancestor
Worship
d. God: Heaven
e. Issues: Gender inequality,
Authoritarianism
a. Founder: Lao Tzu (604 B.C. -
?)
b. Sacred texts: Tao Te Ching,
Book of Chuang Tze
c. Doctrines: Wu-Wei, Law of
Reversion, Following nature
d. Tao as the Origin of all
Beings, unnameable and
eternal
e. Issues: Inaction,
Superstitious practices,
Environmentalism
a. Founders: Prehistoric Animists
of Japan
b. Sacred texts: Kojiki and Nihongi
c. Doctrines: belief in kami,
divinity of emperors
d. Gods: kami (animist and nature
spirits)
e. Issues: Shrine visits of Japanese
prime ministers